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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Jun-2026 22:15 ET (24-Jun-2026 02:15 GMT/UTC)

Skipping meals to selling assets: COVID-19 and coping strategies of vulnerable Indian households

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study documents how vulnerable families in India coped with food insecurity during the pandemic. It highlights how interviewed families sometimes went without food, medicine, and other essentials to cope with the fallout of the pandemic.

Journal: PLOS One

3D-printed devices could streamline the production of drug-delivery microparticles

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT researchers demonstrated 3D-printed triaxial electrospray emitters, devices that generate precise, three-layer microdroplets at scale. These tiny devices could be used to manufacture time-release drug delivery capsules or self-healing materials.

Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Funder: Tecnológico de Monterrey – MIT Nanotechnology Program

C-Path appoints biotechnology leader and veteran life-science attorney Yalonda Howze to Board of Directors

Critical Path Institute (C-Path)
Business Announcement

Critical Path Institute today announced the appointment of Yalonda Howze, J.D., to its Board of Directors. Howze brings nearly two decades of executive leadership and legal experience across the biotechnology and life-science sectors, including her most recent current service as interim chief executive officer and president of Generation Bio

A hidden DNA genome protector may explain why health and aging differ between men and women

Massachusetts General Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How diseases develop and how the body ages can differ between females and males, but the biological reasons for these differences are not fully understood. Researchers are studying the role of sex chromosomes to better understand what may be driving these differences.

Journal: Nature

Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk on the rise in Southern California

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change could make historically rare tropical cyclones more common in Southern California, significantly expanding landslide risk across the region by 2050.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Rare intestinal tumor mistaken for intussusception highlights diagnostic challenges in young woman

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — June 10, 2026 — A new case report was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on April 15, 2026, titled “Ileal leiomyoma disguised as intussusception: Imaging pitfalls in a 28-year-old female.”

Journal: Oncoscience

Old Dominion University launches National Security Institute to advance solutions for complex global challenges

Old Dominion University - Division of Research and Economic Development
Business Announcement

Old Dominion University launches a new National Security Institute (ODU-NSI) designed to accelerate research and technology solutions for some of the most pressing challenges facing the United States today. The new institute brings together the University's strengths in artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, autonomous systems, communications and sensing, maritime and port operations, and advanced technologies into a coordinated, mission-focused effort.

Columbia University's Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research awarded $75 million to advance healthcare discoveries

Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Grant and Award Announcement

The award recognizes 20 years of impact in clinical and translational science and funds a seven-year grant that will accelerate biomedical research to improve human health in NYC and the nation.

Tongbin Wu, Ph.D., of MMRI, awarded research grant from Saving tiny Hearts Society

Masonic Medical Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) is pleased to announce that Tongbin Wu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research and Translational Medicine at MMRI, has been awarded a $100,000 research grant from the Saving tiny Hearts Society, in support of his project entitled, “Defining the Role of MYRF in the Pathogenesis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS).”

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